Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things.

It can also be about adventuring with friends or watching the sun rise over a blocky ocean. It’s pretty. Brave players battle terrible things in The Nether, which is more scary than pretty. You can also visit a land of mushrooms if it sounds more like your cup of tea.

What's New:

1.13.1 is now available! It improves performance and fixes a bunch of bugs that made their way into 1.13. There's also a few changes in this update that are listed below.

Changes:

Performance optimizations

Added dead coral

Fish now have a 5% chance of dropping bonemeal when killed

Squids now only spawn in rivers and oceans

Added a concept of force-loaded chunks to the game, and a command (/forceload) to toggle force-loading on and off

Bug fixed:

MC-73 - Green arrow bug on maps in frames

MC-1357 - Logged out players appear on maps

MC-1489 - Dismounting a horse with a fence on the player's right leaves the player on the wrong side of the fence

MC-119607 - Llamas, unlike horses, can be kept feeding hay bales even if in love mode

MC-119856 - Slime blocks missing cullface argument

MC-119971 - Various duplications, deletions, and data corruption at chunk boundaries, caused by loading outdated chunks — includes duping and deletion of entities/mobs, items in hoppers, and blocks moved by pistons, among other problems

Added an "Optimize World" button (singleplayer -> edit world -> optimize world), which upgrades an entire world from older version to the latest version in one go

Blocks

Added blue ice

Found in icebergs

Added coral blocks

Added coral fans

Added coral

Added conduit

Combine 1 heart of the sea together with 8 nautilus shells to create the conduit

Makes your life underwater a lot easier

Added dried kelp block

Combine 9 dried kelp to create a kelp block

Added kelp and seagrass

Normal pumpkins no longer have a face

Added carved pumpkin

Use a shear on a pumpkin to carve it

Added sea pickles

Added bubble columns

Use either magma blocks or soul sand to create a bubble column

Added wood block

Combine 4 logs of any type to create a wood block

Added stripped wood

Right click with an axe on either logs or wood to create stripped wood

Added prismarine stairs and slabs

Added variantes for all 6 types of woods for pressure plates, trapdoors and buttons

Added turtle eggs

Be sure to protect them from hostile mobs

Mobs

Added tropical fish

Added turtles

A friendly mob that lays eggs on beaches

Added dolphins

A neutral mob that will lead you to treasure if you feed it fish

Make sure to not hit them unless you want an entire pod after you

Added the Drowned

Hostile mob that can be found naturally in oceans and rivers

Can spawn with tridents

Zombies will convert into Drowned if they're underwater for too long

Added Phantoms

Get a good nights sleep if you don't want these coming swooping at you

Drops phantom membrane

Added cod, salmon, and pufferfish as mobs

Changed the horse model to be more consistent with other mobs

Removed Herobrine

Items

Added tridents

The newest weapon in Minecraft

Drops from the Drowned

Works as both a melee and a ranged weapon

Added trident enchantments

Added the ability to catch fish with buckets

Added map markers

Hold a map in your hand and right click on a banner to create a marker

Added heart of the sea

Found in buried treasure

Added nautilus shells

Drops from Drowned and can be found from fishing

Added phantom membrane

Dropped by Phantoms and gives you the ability to repair elytra and used for Potion of Slow Falling

Added scutes

Dropped by baby turtles when they grow up

Added Potion of the Turtle Master

Gives you Slowness IV and Resistance III

Added Potion of Slow Falling

Added dried kelp

Added spawn eggs for all the new mobs

Biomes

Added multiple ocean biomes

Added coral reefs

Added underwater caves

Added underwater ravines

Structures

Added shipwrecks

Added underwater ruins

Added icebergs

Update 1.12.1:

New colored blocks are added:

Concrete and concrete powder.

Glazed terracotta.

Beds are now bouncy and dye-able [2].

Updated color palette of most colored blocks to be more vibrant.

Parrots in multiple colors [3].

Illusioner, a new illager.

Recipe book and Knowledge book.

Replacing Achievements with Advancements [4].

Functions.

Several commands.

Narrator – says what is typed in chat out loud (Ctrl+B to turn on).

New sounds.

Your hotbar can now be saved and loaded in Creative mode (C+number to save and X+number to load).

Update 1.11.2

The main purpose of this update is to fix a number of bugs, but we also took the opportunity to introduce a number of other features. Just in time for the holidays!

Added rocket-propelled elytra flight

Added Iron Nuggets

Added Sweeping Edge enchantment for swords

Changed the attack indicator to hint when you should attack

The update is available in your Minecraft launcher, enjoy! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Minecraft Team.

Update 1.11:

Treasure hunters, rejoice! Update 1.11, aka the Exploration Update, has now made the treacherous journey from snapshot to full release. Our intrepid developers have scaled mighty crags of code, ventured into untamed pre-release territory and battled bugs to bring you wondrous gaming goodies!

Some of these goodies may help you on your own journeys, too. 1.11 introduces the Cartographer, a new type of Villager who will exchange your spare emeralds for a map, marking the spot of certain treasure caches. But these locations won’t give up their bounty so easily! Some maps may point you to mysterious Ocean Monuments, patrolled by spiny Guardians, others to Woodland Mansions - a new location, inhabited by the Villagers’ creepy cousins: the Illagers!

These mean and miserly folk do not welcome interlopers: watch out for spells which summon toothsome traps from the floor, or conjure nasty impish foes called Vexes. Survive that, and you’ll find that the Woodland Mansion contains a rather powerful prize: the Totem of Undying. With this trinket to hand, you can face any peril without fear. Fall, and the Totem of Undying will bring you back from the abyss of death itself! Phew!

But how will you transport all your amazing loot? Perhaps saddled to a llama! These noble ruminants will form a caravan train that you lead across the land, and can be decked out with snazzy drapes. They’re pretty feisty, too, and chase off menaces with a hail of spitballs. Cool! Also, ew! Cewl?

If their inventory is not enough to accommodate your needs, consider packing your chattels into a Shulker Box - a special chest that retains its contents even when knocked down. Handy!

There’s loads more to discover! But you’re brave adventurers, right? Find it for yourself!

Previous versions:

Here is a list of all the changes:

Many bug fixes

Added Polar Bear

Added Husk and Stray

An auto-jump option

Improvements to some commands

Structure blocks for custom maps

Underground fossils made from bone blocks

Added Magma Block

Added Nether Wart Block and Red Nether Bricks

Some huge mushrooms can be even larger

A rare chance to find lonely trees in plains

Find abandoned mineshafts filled with gold in mesa biomes

Villages generate better paths between the buildings

More variations of villages, based on the biomes they are built in

Endermen have been spotted in the Nether

Removed Herobrine

Improved memory usage of the pathfinder

Performance of the chunk cache improved

Use less memory for biome caching

Several tweaks to the AI

Tweaks to the Realms

Added /stopsound command

Removed herob…. (ok, this is getting old, I know)

Notable changes in 1.9:

Added shields

Attacking now has a “cool-down” delay, making it more important to time your attacks

You can now hold items in both hands (default quick key to swap items is ‘F’)

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Pocket Edition includes randomly generated worlds, multiplayer over a local Wi-Fi network, and Survival and Creative modes. You can craft and create with your friends anywhere in the world so long as you have hands spare and battery to burn.

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